30%?

[Sutton Warrior]

Been looking at other sites and they indicate, unless its 'April fool', looks like camera and lenses are going up on 1st April by a massive 30% I understand why it might be so, but that realy is an 'out of court' hike. Wages going down, product going up!!! and thats not only luxury goods, Hazel came home this evening, she looked in the butchers to day, for a pork joint for the weekend, normaly £4, £4.50, they want £7!!! Its, chicken, sausage, mince, and imported frozen meat from now on, buy British? . . . cant afford British Mr Brown! and certainly wont be even considering any aditional photo kit for a long time to come. Thank goodness I bought the 10-20 recently.

 

SW

[RobStubbs]

Been looking at other sites and they indicate, unless its 'April fool', looks like camera and lenses are going up on 1st April by a massive 30% I understand why it might be so, but that realy is an 'out of court' hike. Wages going down, product going up!!! and thats not only luxury goods, Hazel came home this evening, she looked in the butchers to day, for a pork joint for the weekend, normaly £4, £4.50, they want £7!!! Its, chicken, sausage, mince, and imported frozen meat from now on, buy British? . . . cant afford British Mr Brown! and certainly wont be even considering any aditional photo kit for a long time to come. Thank goodness I bought the 10-20 recently.

 

SW

 

If they put up prices by 30% then there will be casualties amongst the retailers because people will not, all of a sudden, be prepared to spend an extra 1 or 2-hundred quid on a body or lens etc. I'm looking at replacing my eos 300d but I most definately wouldn't pay 600 quid when I was contemplating 450. I would shop around or wait until prices came back down.

 

It's more likely that this is a marketing scam to get people to spend their money before April - i.e the same philosophy as 'January sales' yet in reverse.

 

Rob.

Edited February 20, 2009 by RobStubbs

[Peter Waller]

Prices will rise, not just because of exchange rates but because of rising costs and reduced sales. Personally I think that the worst is yet to come. This country is grinding to a halt, any ideas that we would spend our way out of recession is muddled thinking. We ain't seen nothing yet!

[poledark]

Inevitable that prices of imports will rise....pound down....prices up.

 

Waiting won't help you much Rob, you may even find it gets worse, and suddenly the supply will dry up. If a retailer can't sell something, then he won't stock/import it.

 

Den

[snakey1]

Price rise is already here, last week ffordes were charging £739.00 for the sigma 50- 500 bigma now its £1099, warehouse express is the same, some places still carrying old stock still have the old prices but i've a feeling anyone ordering new gear is being stung for the drop in the exchange rate with the yen.

[RobStubbs]

Inevitable that prices of imports will rise....pound down....prices up.

 

Waiting won't help you much Rob, you may even find it gets worse, and suddenly the supply will dry up. If a retailer can't sell something, then he won't stock/import it.

 

Den

 

I'm not sure that's true. Popular items will have to be sold competitively or else the retailer wont sell anything. Sure people will eventually forget there's been a large price hike - but can retailers afford to 'sit it out' with much reduced sales ? I don't think they can - they need sales to stay in business.

 

Rob.